Fake Food & Modern Medicine: Reclaim Your Health W/ Nature’s Wisdom Feat. Daniel Vitalis #292

Daniel Vitalis has been on the show a few times before, but every time he comes back, I learn something new — and boy oh boy is there a lot to learn in this episode.

We discussed the first season of Daniel’s new TV show — “WildFed” — the last time he was on the show. But now it’s out, I’ve seen it, and it’s fantastic. This is a culinary adventure series where you follow Daniel to eight different, extreme locales to hunt, fish, and forage wild ingredients, turning them into delicious meals. It’s a lot of fun to watch, and there are also HUGE director’s cuts that offer in-depth, behind-the-scenes looks for each episode. And you can use code LUKE15 for 15% off WildFed Season 1 + Director's Cuts at vimeo.com/ondemand/wildfeds1dc!

A true hero of the wild world, and one of the few modern-day hunter-gatherers we have left, Daniel is the perfect guide for anyone who’s interested in getting a little wilder. Even if you’re not interested in learning to hunt, fish, and forage, Daniel can still help you live a modern life while staying connected to nature in a visceral way.

There are few people more thoughtful about the environment and their role in it than Daniel, but it’s something we could all stand to get a little (or a lot) better at.

11:45 — Mimicking the natural world in the modern-day

• Pretty much none of us live in the natural world, and that realization is why I dedicated myself to biohacking
• The natural world is more than the sum of its parts
• I’ll escape to space while Daniel stays here to clean up the planet

16:15 — Where is the food industry at in 2020?

• Episode 2: Daniel Vitalis: Farming and the Fall of Man
• Use the code STYLE10 for 10% off at SurThrival.com/lukestorey
• What does “supplement” even mean today?
• The things that are now considered supplements but used to be considered food
• Daniel isn’t a great marketer, but he makes good shit
• What most air filters get wrong and why it’s so hard to find a good one

30:30 — Wild Foods vs. Domestic Foods

• Why nutritional content and variety is often lacking from grocery store food
• Everything you eat isn’t necessarily food (or at least meant to be food)
• Creating a (flawed) diet through domestication
• A wild blueberry vs. the blueberry you find in a store
• The dangerous anti-nutrients in some vegetables that most people think are healthy
• Daniel has probably eaten more species in the last 12 months than the average US citizen will eat in 10 years
• The difference between nutritional variety and aesthetic variety
• Some of the vegetables sold to you as different products in the supermarket are literally from the same plant, and most of us don’t know it
• The problem with eating the same foods over and over, year-round
• The benefits of eating with the seasons
• Why cloned produce is so whack

48:30 — The “Natural Human Diet” and the problem with the environment that we’ve created for ourselves

• Busting some historical food myths
• The historical eating and farming practices of some indigenous tribes
• Lichen (and other things you’d normally never think of as food)
• Why it’s hard for most of us to define the “natural humans diet”
• Why littering is part of human nature but litter itself is a byproduct of industrialization
• Alcohol’s role in our problematic environments and civilization
• The many, many, many societal problems that come as a byproduct of agriculture
• The physiological benefits of foraging vs. farming
• The very specific definition of “civilization”

01:09:03 — The societal problems that can be traced back domestication

• Universal Love Vs. Lockdown Lunacy: A Worldwide Wake-up Call W/ David Icke
• There’s more than enough food for everyone, but not for everyone to be healthy and safe
• Will replacing our current problematic hierarchy with a different hierarchy actually improve anything?

01:20:00 — Have some of us ruined our bodies beyond repair through domesticated foods?

• I feel the best when I mostly just eat beef… but do I actually thrive on such a non-diverse diet?
• Are viruses every beneficial?
• Watch: “King Corn” (full documentary)

01:36:50 — Living WildFed

• Use code LUKE15 for 15% off WildFed Season 1 + Director's Cuts at vimeo.com/ondemand/wildfeds1dc
• I’m not much of a foodie, but what they make at the end of each episode always looks incredible
• We need to talk more about what we’ve done to ourselves through domestication
• Where do we really want our society to go?
• Treating the root cause vs. relieving symptoms
• You have more ownership over wild animals and foraged food than you might think

01:48:30 — Two critical elements that most people are missing in their diet

• What are vitamins K2 and D3?
• Where you can find them naturally
• Use the code STYLE10 for 10% off at SurThrival.com/lukestorey
• What’s good for one person can be too much for another
• Chaga and reishi mushroom extraction methods + the benefits of both
• A few reasons why cancer is more prevalent today than it used to be

01:57:45 — Pine Pollen Extract: Why this is something you definitely want to know about

• The sexual potency of pine pollen extract, which can be used to increase your testosterone
• Use the code STYLE10 for 10% off Pine Pollen Gold
• Why I like it so much

02:24:25 — The amazing immune power of bovine colostrum